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	          Ernst Moritz Arndt, "The German Fatherland" (1813) 
				
					
						
						
						
							
							
						
						
					
					
				
				Born and raised on the island of Rügen, then part of Sweden, the poet, writer, and nationalist publicist Ernst....
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	          German Federal Act (June 8, 1815) 
				
					
						
						
						
							
							
						
						
					
					
				
				The general agreement between the German states with respect to the founding of a Confederation was first signed by 35 individual states and four free cities (Lübeck, Hamburg, Bremen, and Frankfurt)....
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	          Carlsbad Decrees: Confederal Press Law (September 20, 1819) 
				
					
						
						
						
							
							
						
						
					
					
				
				From August 6-31, 1819, under the influence of Clemens Prince von Metternich (1773-1859), ministers....
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	          Final Act of the Viennese Ministerial Conferences (May 15, 1820) 
				
					
						
						
						
							
							
						
						
					
					
				
				The rules laid out in the German Federal Act were to be quickly supplemented by a Basic Law....
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	          The Six Articles (June 28, 1832) and the Ten Articles (July 5, 1832)  
				
					
						
						
						
							
							
						
						
					
					
				
				The political unrest following the Paris Revolution in July of 1830 and the liberal-democratic demonstrations at the Hambach....
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	          Johann August Wirth at the Hambach Festival (May 1832) 
				
					
						
						
						
							
							
						
						
					
					
				
				In the south German states, political unrest in the wake of the Paris Revolution of 1830, restrictive....
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	          "Germany's Unification" (1843) 
				
					
						
						
						
							
							
						
						
					
					
				
				Published in the Düsseldorfer Zeitung (September 3 and 5, 1843), the article "Germany's Unification" criticizes the existing German Confederation. It calls for a unified German nation-state....
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	          Eisenach Declaration of the National Association (1859) 
				
					
						
						
						
							
							
						
						
					
					
				
				In its founding declaration from August 14, 1859, the National Association emphatically calls for a "small German" solution to the question of national unification under Prussian leadership. Founded....
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	          The National Association on a German Constitution (1860) 
				
					
						
						
						
							
							
						
						
					
					
				
				The declaration of the National Association on the question of a German constitution (from September 4, 1860) clarifies the Association's view that a German nation-state was only possible on the....
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	          Program of the German Reform Association (1862) 
				
					
						
						
						
							
							
						
						
					
					
				
				The pro-Austrian German Reform Association was founded in October 1862 in Frankfurt. In contrast to the National....
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